The General History of Art courses at the Beaux-arts de Paris in the 2nd and 3rd years are accessible to a limited group of auditors from outside the School. These courses allow you to acquire a certain number of fundamentals to navigate art history with confidence. However, it is not a question of following courses organized academically by periods or currents, but of providing the means to interpret art from all periods and all sources combined according to original themes renewed each year.

Auditors do not have student status and do not have access to 2nd cycle artistic practice courses or seminars.

Registration for auditor courses for the 2025/2026 programme will open on Thursday 4 September 2025.

Download the 2025-2026 programme

Course calendar: 1st semester from 1 October to 17 December 2025 / 2nd semester from 21 January to 8 April 2026.
Fees: €330 full price / €198 reduced price, subject to availability and upon presentation of proof of eligibility.
All courses are taught in French only.

For more information, please send an email to naba@beauxartsparis.fr
or call: 01 47 03 50 57